July 2008 - Posts
This is to explain what the ULS logs are, why they exist, and how to read and write 'em. In a nutshell, the Unified Logging Service (ULS) writes WSS 3.0 and MOSS events to SharePoint’s Trace Logs, and these are stored in the file system in ...\12 \LOGS
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So, don't expect too many updates on the next month :) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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The final two tutorials (#9 and #10) of my Master Pages Tutorial series are now available on www.asp.net . These tutorials explore two advanced master page scenarios: Specifying the Master Page Programmatically [ VB | C# ] - in most cases a content page's
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Ok, since today is my last day at work before vacations, I’ve though that it would be a great time to relax and since I was talking with a friend of mine about TV series, I thought that I should publish my top 6 TV series of all time, starting from 6
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As we’ve seen in the last post of the series , the MVC platform introduced the notion of “request associated data” by creating the TempDataDictionary which can be accessed through the Controller’s TempData property. As we’ve discussed, the data you put
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In my last post,we’ve seen how the MvcRouteHandler creates an IController instance that is responsible for processing the current request . Today I’ll keep talking about the MVC platform and we’re going to step through the tipical controller lifecycle.
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I feel like a ninja. A really loud, clicky ninja. This is a loud-ass keyboard. In the best way. I reviewed the original DasKeyboard two years ago, the one with totally blank keys, and let me tell you - if you want to learn how to touch type, type on blank
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I feel like a ninja. A really loud, clicky ninja. This is a loud-ass keyboard. In the best way. I reviewed the original DasKeyboard two years ago, the one with totally blank keys, and let me tell you - if you want to learn how to touch type, type on blank
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As I've said in one of my previous posts , you can have 2 controllers with the same name, but on different namespaces. The problem with this approach is that you'll only be able to get a route by specifying its name. So, if you don't want
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Article: Learn how to secure your applications against hacker attacks with this free tool. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Article: Get to know the free Process Explorer utility provided by Microsoft. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Yes, I’ve been asking this for some time now…in fact, this is the only thing I miss from the traditional ASP.NET Web Forms model. Those clear aspx pages, with really few <%%> crap (oopss, I mean tags) springled through out my pages – the only place
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Just for your information if you have tried the .NET MF 3.0 beta 2 with Visual Studio 2008 and installed SP1 beta: when trying to compile a console or window application (library projects are ok) you’ll get an error message after compiling: C:\…\Microsoft.Common.targets(2341,
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I am a big fan of Subversion . I like TFS too, but subversion is more suited to my small scale personal needs whereas TFS is more in the corporate space, or at least, more in the " requires more juice " space. Juice that I don't really have. So, I use
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This week, Starbucks announced that it would close 61 of its 84 Australian stores by the weekend. The closures would affect 685 jobs and follows the closure of around 600 underperforming stores in the US recently. In my home town of Adelaide, I was surprised
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Wrox has started a new thing as of late they're calling Wrox First . It's essentially a wiki of the book that I and my fellow Silverlight 2 authors are working on-- Silverlight 2 Programmer's Reference . Not only do you get early access, you can also
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Wait a minute…I hear you say… Silverlight doesn’t support 3D! Well, no, not directly. But there are ways to get around this, and Robby Ingebretsen highlights a few : A couple of weeks ago, I spent a little time trying to get my finger on the pulse of
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Subscribe to Everything . Subscribe to WMV format . Subscribe to M4V for iPod Users . Subscribe to MP3 (Audio only) . Download WMV . Download M4V for iPod Users. Download MP3 (Audio Only). Show Notes: Phil Haack comes on the show and gives a simple ASP.NET
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Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so): Monday, July 28, 2008 7:00 PM: Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group July Meeting - Andy Leonard on Incremental Loads in SSIS 2008 using Change Data Capture [ Event Details
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The .NET Micro Framework 3.0 beta now enables developers to use Visual Studio 2008 for the current version 2.5 and the upcoming version 3.0. This was introduced for other .NET frameworks with Visual Studio 2008. Wow, now I don’t need to install Visual
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The Microsoft .NET MF team has opened the beta of .NET Micro Framework 3.0 right now. This beta includes following features (all planned features are available here: Opening the .NET MF 3.0 kimono ): Visual Studio 2008 now supported .NET Micro Framework
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Bunch of stuff I’ve been meaning to blog about recently, in no particular order: The SideShow Team Blog announces the availability of a beta release of SideShow gadgets for Windows Media Center . View guide information, schedule recordings, control media
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In one of my last posts , I’ve said that I didn’t like the new recommendation of not using _ to prefix member fields. At the time, we all seem to agree that using hungarian was really a bad thing. So, I’ve searched the web and I’m putting here a link
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[Disclaimer: I’ve received a copy of this book for review] I’m really happy to have received a copy of this book. It’s really a simple, easy to read, concise book which contains all you need to get started with PowerShell. You can easy read the
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I've been using Microsoft Virtual PC product for many years, posting separate VPCs for each client's work and for test beds for installing beta software or trying out products for my Toolbox column . A couple of months ago I started noticing that when
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I'm still using the Kindle every day for casual reading, but just now I noticed that my pile of technical books on my desk is taller than my son. Actually, a few of these I've already read in manuscript form and I wrote either a foreword or a quote for
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In my last blog entry, The CreateUserWizard and Validation ErrorMessages , reader Andrei Rinea commented: I wish the whole Membership set of controls would be replaced with better ones. Very often I need to have an authentication/authorization mechanism
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If you're noticing when looking at your blog traffic logs that more and more people are visiting your site from a mobile device, you likely want to be accommodating. I have noticed recently that mobile devices like the iPhone, iPod Touch and Danger Hiptop
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My one-hundred-and-twenty-third podcast is up . I sat down with Dare Obasanjo this week and we chatted about the interesting problems that Social Networking sites face. Dare blogs about social networking, amongst other things, at http://www.25hoursaday.com/weblog/
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My one-hundred-and-twenty-second podcast is up . In this episode I share BabySmash! with Carl Franklin and we chat about WPF, its strengths and weaknesses, and my trials in launching my tiny (free) Micro-ISV. Subscribe: Download: MP3 Full Show Torrent:
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Subscribe to everything Subscribe to MP3 Download MP3 Show Notes: Web Deployment WAP vs. Websites WAP Websites Web Setup project produces an MSI file WDP Add on MSDeploy.exe Sql publication wizard Rick Rolling Vishal Joshi Blog: http://www.vishaljoshi.blogspot.com/
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If you’re into 3D rendering, modeling, and animation, you may want to take advantage of this. Chris Williams points out that apparently Caligari is making trueSpace 7.6 available for free , along with video tutorials. I haven’t used TrueSpace, but from
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My fellow developer evangelist, Chris Bowen , along with co-authors Steve Resnick and Rich Crane , appears on the latest episode of ARCast.TV, discussing their book Essential WCF : ARCast.TV - Essential WCF </P Share this post: email it! | bookmark
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Just over a year ago I blogged about the huge volumes of spam that we report on (and either block or tag for our customers). At that time the amount of legitimate email - of many millions of emails we deal with - was right around 17% (83% spam!). Well,
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In one of my previous posts , I’ve showed how you could access the Values property of the RouteData class to get info about the current controller and action. What I forgot to mention at the time was that you should use the GetRequiredString method to
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As we’ve seen in the previous post , all “MVC routing requests” are handled by the MvcRouteHandler class which will simply return an instance of the MvcHandler type. The MvcHandler is an IHttpHandler which is responsible for creating other classes that
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The CreateUserWizard control introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 makes it easy to create a new user account on a website that uses the Membership framework. (See my Creating User Accounts tutorial for more information on using this control.) Out of the box, the
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One of the things I needed when I started playing with ASP.NET MVC is getting info about the current Route. That’s easy when you’re on the controller, but what happens when you need that info on a module? In these scenarios, the easiest way of achieving
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netsh int ipv4 set int "Loopback Adapter" weakhostreceive=enabled weakhostsend=enabled netsh int ipv4 set int "Local Area Connection" weakhostreceive=enabled weakhostsend=enabled...( read more )...( read more ) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it!
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[Disclaimer: I’ve received a copy of this book for review] I’ve just finished reading the Professional IIS 7 and ASP.NET integrated programming book by Dr. Shramram. If you’re trying to understand how to leverage the new IIS 7 managed features, then this
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As we’ve seen in the previous post , by default you’ll end up using the MvcRouteHandler class for setting up the handler that will return the HTTP response to the client. As you can see (by looking at the code), the GetHttpHandler will only return a new
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I love the fact that the CRM 4.0 Outlook client is smarter about being able to drop me to offline when it detects the network connection is gone. The problem I have is I'm on and off the network a lot and I find myself getting left in offline mode.
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I just came across a nice feature in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (currently in Beta ) that I didn’t realize was included. It’s always nice to discover hidden gems from time to time. With ASP.NET 1.0, 1.1, 2.0 and 3.5 applications if a user or JavaScript
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Ever wanted to get rich building games… now you can : You’ve played Xbox 360 games with the millions of gamers on Xbox LIVE. You’ve chatted, shared, and dominated in games of all kinds. But what if those millions could be playing your game? Better still
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I'm a huge fan of screencasts for learning . There are an increasing number of increasingly sophisticated tools and libraries that we as developers have available and I'm leaning on screencasts to learn them. I really like the screencasts that Rob Conery
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One of my fellow moderators on an Entrepreneur forum we both spend too much time on,Todd Chism, just got nominated by his colleagues for Entrepreneur of the Year - and made it to the final! Todd's a great guy and has built a great company selling
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No doubt about it, power costs are increasing. Everyone feels the pain at the gas pump now, and more are feeling it in utility bills. When your utility bills run many thousands of dollars, like it does for hosting companies, you feel percentage increases
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Excellent news from Nic Fillingham : Windows Home Server Power Pack 1 has been released to manufacuring and is available NOW for your downloading pleasure via the Microsoft Download Center . Power Pack 1 includes a bunch of new features, enhancements
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via Jon Galloway , news that the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 CodePlex Preview 1 (say that five times fast) has been released. You can read about what’s in it here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for the next week (or so): Tuesday, July 22, 2008 6:30 PM: Maryland and Pennsylvania .NET User Group July Meeting - This month MAPAMDUG presents their Heroes Happen Here community launch [ Event Details
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Wow, Bertrand and his team have put together a new download today. Thanks a lot guys. Here's the new library. http://www.codeplex.com/aspnet/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=15511 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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I've been getting more and more interested in how folks extend their applications using plugins and things. In my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you thirtieth in a infinite number of posts of
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I'm hearing ScottGu say that there are different users for MVC and its not for everyone. He says that MVC is not for everyone. An excellent viewpoint. over the past couple of months, I've moved away from a view of who needs MVC to a view of a
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A couple of things that I just heard about on .NET 3.5 SP1 that I was not aware of: Cold startup of .NET applications. It sounds like MS has improved how they are reading data from the filesystem on startup. The feature is meant for windows gui apps.
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As defined in 1999 ( RFC 2616 ) “ clients that use persistent connections should limit the number of simultaneous connections that they maintain to a given server” . Since developers are using AJAX or AJAX-like requests to update a Web page the http limits
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Last weekend I have started to look at wireless communication for .NET Micro Framework devices. At Droids I found really cool boards for USB and serial connection, simple put the XBee module on the board and use it from your device. XBee Simple
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I was over at http://search.twitter.com earlier today and I noticed the Search Box in Firefox had a blue lit-up dealie: Hm...OK. What's that? I hit another site and didn't see it. Weird. Ok, View-Source then, what drives you little blue thing? <link
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I read a Wired magazine article on Julia Allison while on the flight from Atlanta to Seattle. Basically, Julia teaches the art of self promotion. There were several suggestions that she had for people along with explanations as to why to do these things.
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Jan Ku č era has updated his great Web site about Microsoft .NET Micro Framework www.microframework.eu . If you want to know how to start you will find tutorials and further examples. Events and FAQ will help to stay informed using the .NET Micro Framework.
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Earlier this week I bought Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 9.5 . It took me close to an hour to get the software install and configured properly on my system, primarily because I am using a 64-bit operating system. Dragon NaturallySpeaking does not support
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Earlier this week I broke my right hand playing basketball . I currently have a splint on, which renders my right hand useless. I can wiggle the tips of my fingers but I lack the control to use a mouse or type with this lame hand. I'm getting proficient
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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On Wednesday Bob Fox announced the launch of the ISPA and its website at http://www.sharepointpros.org/ . Bob's been putting this together for well over a year so first off, congratulations to Bob on launching and thank-you for all the hard work you do
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9994087-36.html?tag=nefd.top I thought this article was interesting. It shows that it is entirely possible to lose money when investing. PodTech took approximately $7 million in capital and turned it into $500k. This
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Yesterday I brought up the question if there could be a change to the address bar of the next version of Internet Explorer . Since I’m using Windows Vista I’m very happy with the new view of the path in explorer.exe. It is very easy to navigate to parent
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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Great post by Joe Duffy (does this guy ever sleep???) which points to a somewhat disturbing fact regarding some of the conventions taken as granted today...want to know what I'm talking about? Then go read it ASAP ! Share this post: email it! | bookmark
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Internet Explorer 8 is in beta and we're able to improve features that we need. Last week I sent a short message to the Microsoft DPE here in Germany with some comments what I like more in Firefox 3 than in Internet Explorer. Well, there are a couple
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I wanted a custom cursor for BabySmash ! My son was having trouble associating the mouse cursor on the screen and the movement of the mouse. Clearly a shiny new Kids Cursor was in order. I went into Expression Blend and drew this hand cursor. I drew it
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Frank La Vigne is just going to town on developing cool solutions around Community Megaphone . First it was his Windows Live Writer plug-in, and now he’s created a cool Silverlight front-end for Community Megaphone: You can click on any state and get
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See Phil's post: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/07/16/aspnetmvc-codeplex-preview4.aspx And of course ScottGu's post: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/07/14/asp-net-mvc-preview-4-release-part-1.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark
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Dunno if it means anything to anyone, but I just got email stating that Joteke's Blog has scored 8.2 on Blogged.com. According to them " We evaluated your blog based on the following criteria: Frequency of Updates, Relevance of Content, Site
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Since yesterday there is an update available for Silverlight 2 . This update improves stability, media streaming, and the auto-update component. This update also improves support for Firefox 3 . Microsoft Support kb955011 More details on Silverlight and
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My one-hundred-and-twentyfirst podcast is up . In this episode, I talk to Rick Barraza, an Experience Architect from Cynergy with a background in Flash, and Bryan Perfetto, a Developer from Inxile writing his first Silverlight application. We chat about
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Here is a post in forums.iis.net that is worthy of an complete article. http://forums.iis.net/t/1150447.aspx It addresses caching on a UNC path where the server is a non-OS file server. It's a Novell server using CIFS. If you have documents on a Samba...(
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Most developers pay lip service to security, but there aren’t so many who actually take the time to actually secure their site. We usually leave it to the sys admins. Yes, those same sys admins who like to make our lives miserable by actually
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And you can get it from codeplex . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 is up on CodePlex . The Gu has all the exquisite Gu-Like Detail on his blog . If you take a look at the generated "changes" document, it shows a bunch of new stuff like AjaxHelpers and AjaxExtensions that set the stage
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 is up on CodePlex . The Gu has all the exquisite Gu-Like Detail on his blog . Phil Haack has some notes on this release on his blog . If you take a look at the generated "changes" document, it shows a bunch of new stuff
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Bil Simser has just done the .NET Community a huge solid . Bil has dug up and re-released Terrarium to CodePlex wtih the intent to update it to use new language features and new usability features like ClickOnce. If you're newish to the .NET Community
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If you didn't remember: tomorrow is IE 8 (beta) chat time : "Please join experts from the Internet Explorer team in a chat around the Internet Explorer 8 Beta. These chats are a great opportunity to have your questions answered and hear from members
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Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying out the Sprint Instinct touch screen phone to see how I liked it. I wrote my initial review here and posted some tips and tricks on using the device here . The poor browsing experience on the Instinct
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Touch screen support is announced for the next version of the .NET Micro Framework which will arrive end of this year. There are some companies already adding touch screen support for devices that are using the current version 2.5: emtrion HiCO.ARM9 and
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I really like the IIS7 team at Microsoft. They're cool people, but the what I like is that IIS7 is so freaking modular (I've talked about this at conferences before when showing how to use PHP and Ruby under IIS7 using FastCGI ) that the group keeps bringing
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In these last days I've finally upgraded to Opera 9.51 . I've always been a Opera user, though when I was actively developing for the web, I've generally ended up using Firefox and IE only. Now, the good news is that the latest version of
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i broke my right hand playing basketball tonight. splint on, prognosis is 4-6 weeks in a cast that will likely be high enough on my hand to greatly reduce finger mobility. as it stands now, i can only type w/my left hand and have moved the mouse to my
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Yes, it's one of those posts where you either agree or disagree completely :) Anyway, after having a 15 minutes discussion with my friend Paulo (which, btw and as usual, disagrees with me) yesterday at 1AM, I've decided to write this post. The
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Great post by Scott presenting the new things one can expect to see in the next preview of ASP.NET MVC. This means that it's time to pick up where I left and go back to the internals of the MVC platform. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! |
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You can get one here: http://www.ajaxload.info/ Lots of choices available, and you can customize to suit your site’s look and feel. Here’s an example, using the background and foreground colors from my blog, along with a transparent background. Neat!
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Are you in King County/Seattle/Redmond/Bellevue Washington and surrounding areas? Are you a huge nerd ? Perhaps a geek ? No? Maybe a spaz , dork , dweeb or wonk . Maybe you're in town for an SDR (Software Design Review) or the ASPInsiders meeting. Quite
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I needed to display the application version in a file based ASP.NET 3.5 application written in Visual Basic. I wrote the following methods in my AssemblyInfo.vb file in the App_Code directory and it worked! Out popped the Version Number of 0.0.5.0 instead
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I needed to display the application version in a file based ASP.NET 3.5 application written in Visual Basic. I wrote the following methods in my AssemblyInfo.vb file in the App_Code directory and it worked! Out popped the Version Number of 1.0.0.10 instead
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Hi, SQL Server 2008 changes the way FILESTREAM is enabled. I didn’t find the information as quickly as I would like have, so I wanted to post the information in case someone else runs into the same issue. There are two changes that are needed. The
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Busy week ahead…here are the events listed in Community Megaphone for this week: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 5:30 PM: Central Penn .NET Users Group Meeting - Brian Mains: Controls and Control Extenders Using ASP.NET AJAX and AJAX Control Toolkit [ Event Details
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Nathan just posted a roundup of the Knoxville Satelite GiveCamp . Wat to go Nathan! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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How old were you when you first started programming? Adolescent. Possibly 12-13, I got a hold of a TRS-80 (that belonged to my brother in law) and an Apple IIe and wrote Applesoft BASIC & BASIC level 1 programs for fun. How did you get started in
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The ASP.NET MVC team is in the final stages of finishing up a new "Preview 4" release that they hope to ship later this week. The Preview 3 release focused on finishing up a lot of the underlying core APIs and extensibility points in ASP.NET
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99;
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Pavel Bánský explains how he did connect the Digi XBee module to the Tahoe development board : "XBee module is very sophisticated device controlled over serial link. It can operate in old fashion AT command mode as well as more advanced
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GHI Electronics (known from the great Embedded Master™ module) have announced the USBizi module for the .NET Micro Framework . The module is really small and costs only $99 for a single unit. As it is the smallest .NET Micro Framework system it
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Tutorials #6, #7, and #8 in my Master Pages Tutorial series on www.asp.net have been published. These tutorials examine the interaction between the master page and its content pages: Interacting with the Master Page from the Content Page [ VB | C# ] -
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So I'm working on a project which involves some documentation around disaster recovery and I flagged a word in the text for the technical reviewers to suggest a better word (BCD40). The feedback I got really made me laugh: Share this post: email it! |
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Another great article on remote control using the .NET Micro Framework and the Tahoe 3D accelerometer I found on Jens blog . "The Center for Software Innovation has evaluated accelerometer technology in remote control (RC) application for crane operated
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Pavel has some great posts on his blog about robotic vehicles using the .NET Micro Framework . "When I was invited to TechEd North America 2008, I didn't want to go with "bare hands". That's how the simple robotic vehicle was build, completely
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Carlo Mendoza is modifying the i.MXS board for SPI: "The board had a few missing 0Ω resistors, and had to be addressed. Figure 1 was obtained from the schematics included in the CD (iMXS_Devboard_VER1.3.pdf) on page 7. For our purpose, we bridged
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Embedded Master Module is adding support to TFT LCDs . The new version is based on LPC2478 processor with built in LCD controller. The module includes a 0.5mm 40 pin connector for LQ043T3DX02 or LQ043T1DG01 TFT displays from Sharp. These color TFT LCDs
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Emtrion offers a .NET Micro Framework starter kit with an HiCO.ARM9 (AT91RM9200) . The latest firmware updates adds support for ethernet as well as support for the TFT touch screen display. Embedded PC ARM9 Single Board Computer with Atmel AT91RM9200
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Frank La Vigne has created a very cool plug-in for Windows Live Writer that allows you to insert links to Community Megaphone events into any blog post. So if you happen to be promoting your events on Community Megaphone (and if not, why not?), you can
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This quick post is for my own sake so I can find it again later. :-) I refer to the following link often. Mike Volodarsky has put together a detailed list of breaking changes in IIS 7.0 and ASP.NET. For the most part IIS 7 has great compatibility with
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After the first few thousand times you get this warning it starts to get old. Real Old. I always thought it was a badly written site like OnTime or just because I can at times have 20 tabs open in FF3 testing different versions of the Silverlight.net
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I was complaining (more or less) several weeks ago about the amount of work it was going to take to upgrade my MCSE to the latest version. The good news is I went and did the Windows end of things and now I'm apparently an "MCITP: Enterprise Administrator".
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Scott's post prompted this post as I've found that unlike Scott, my recent upgrade to a third screen is really helpful. I run with two PCs under my desk. One PC is a simple Dell tower with 4GB of RAM, a dual core chip in it and a couple of SATA spindles
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I added a new feature to BabySmash during lunch, so that if your (baby's) mouse wheel is over a shape and they scroll the wheel, the system will play a sound and zoom that object in or out. The mouse wheel events come REALLY fast, as do most mouse events.
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If you've ever gotten the error below when you go to Windows Update on a machine or Windows Update is completely missing from the Tools menu in Internet Explorer, it's fortunately an easy registry change to temporarily back out. Network policy settings
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Hi, I want to post information on rendering reports within your web application without having it prompt for a user name and password. Microsoft posts step-by-step instructions here, http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=875447 , so I won’t repost
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In my ten year software developer career I've only worked for two companies, and both job experienced pre-dated the 21st century and my graduation from college. At both jobs, I only had one monitor, albeit a rather large one for the time (21” at both
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NOTE: If you haven't read the first post in this series, I would encourage you do to that first , or check out the BabySmash category . Also check out http://windowsclient.net/ for more developer info on WPF. BACKGROUND: This is one of a series of posts
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I’ve been interviewed by Chris Williams over at www.blogusmaximus.net and you can see the Q&A here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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In order to clear stale or stuck tasks in Urchin 6 complete the following procedure: 1. Disable Urchin 6 Services by going to Start > All Programs > Urchin 6 > Disable Urchin 6 Services 2. If you do not have the menu option, you can open up a
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My colleague Glen Gordon has found a new use for the geoencoded RSS feed from Community Megaphone , namely using it as the basis for a custom Collection in Windows Live Search for Mobile : If you haven't been entering your developer events like user group
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In a previous post I discussed some of the pros and cons of the new Sprint Instinct phone that I recently purchased. I’ve had the phone for a few weeks now and still like it a lot overall. It’s not nearly as flexible as the PPC-6700 phone
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Google giving away free Web App security scanner: http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20080703/tc_pcworld/147917 Cheers, Steve...( read more ) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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http://www.blogusmaximus.net/archive/2008/07/08/123658.aspx Recently, Chris Williams sent me a questionaire for his blog. I had some time on my wya beack from NM and sent it back to him. Here are the answers, for better or worse. Share this post: email
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I have long used FireFox as my default browser for surfing the web, but I typically test my ASP.NET pages on Internet Explorer for a couple of reasons: Some of the larger software projects I work on are developing intranet applications, where all users'
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Robin , who is the president of Roanoke .NET UG , and one of the driving forces behind both Roanoke Code Camp and Richmond Code Camp, writes about the benefits of forming a relationship with local community colleges : Roanoke Valley .NET User Group (RV.NUG)
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Simply because you can only buy it (officially) from a mobile phone operator. Simply a no-no to me… Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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I've listened to a lot of podcasts and never "until now" did a podcast. Craig Shoemaker approached me about doing a podcast. It was real easy! All I had to do was talk about the subject I've been involved with since December 2005, IIS 7.0. We introduced...(
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This is one of the things I've been thinking about in these last days. To be honest, I still see Flash only sites (feel free to add Silverlight to the list too) as more trouble than they're worth it. Even though some say they're more usable,
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This post will be filled with disclaimers and warnings. They are not just to CYA , but also to C my A and avoid my getting sacked. I've been working with Shawn Burke and Rob Conery and the magical Eilon Lipton to try to figure out a way to get ASP.NET
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All day I was stumped on why there wasn't a simple way to grab the first object in a sequence other than using: .Take(1).Single Then I discovered the keyword First. I'm still a little puzzled as to why .Single would throw an exception if more than a single
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SQL Injection attacks are becoming increasingly common the past few months and website owners should both be aware and also take precautions against them. A simple explanation of SQL Injection is when a hacker takes advantage of code that neglects to
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For my own reference. Freenode IRC network: irc.freenode.net Web client at powershelllive.com/irc Newsgroup name microsoft.public.windows.powershell www.PowerScripting.net www.PowerShellCommunity.org...( read more )...( read more ) Share this post: email
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Josh Ledgard from Telligent has posted a really good series of tips for Graffiti CMS and Community Server on his blog . Among the useful tidbits: Customizing Content Sort Order in Graffiti Zooming in on stats (I didn’t know about this one) Creating a
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Ok, so you already know the answer, right? That’s why the String class has the Contains method. And it will work until you need to explicitly need to use a different StringComparison option than the one that is used by default. If like me, you know that
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I’ll be speaking at the N3UG meeting tomorrow evening in Parsippany, NJ. The talk will be on ASP.NET Dynamic Data. See you there. More info on N3UG: Northern New Jersey .NET User Group Meeting since March 2003, the mission of N 3 UG is to develop
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[Disclaimer: I've received a free copy of this book for reviewing] Ok, so this is the second book I've got from Wrox for reviewing (and yes, I did enjoy it much more than the first ). SEO is one of those things that most developers end up forgetting
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Now that Hyper-V on Windows 2008 has RTM'd I thought I would pass along some steps I went through to get the Demo VPC up and running under Hyper-V. You can download the virtual hard drive for the Demo VPC here . After uncompressing it to a local folder
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My one-hundred-and-twentieth podcast is up . In this episode, I talk to Felix, a Designer, and Richard, a Developer about their Odd Couple relationship as they create Silverlight and WPF applications. They also speak frankly about their opinions as full
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Here’s a list of the user groups meeting this week in Mid-Atlantic, from the listings in Community Megaphone : Wednesday, July 09, 2008 6:30 PM: RockNUG Monthly Meeting - n00b presentation, pizza and swag as usual. But a little something different for
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Nikhil Kothari has a great post up from this weekend on providing themes for Silverlight 2 applications: Silverlight provides the ability to completely customize the look and feel of controls (including the intrinsic ones - often something one desires
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Today I have installed Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and noticed that it adds a Firefox add-on called Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant. This browser extension adds ClickOnce installation support using Firefox browsers. More details on Scott’s post
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You can now download an updated version of the CRM 4.0 training kit from MSDN ( here ). This is an updated version of the training materials that I did a bunch of training events with during the beta of CRM 4.0. Girish has a blog post
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Recently Grant split his blog into personal and work . I’m doing a similar thing by splitting my blogging activities into 2 separate blogs. They are: This blog that you are reading now and my new blog . They are both hosted on Live Spaces, but my new
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Tomorrow is the first day of the Microsoft Partner conference in Houston - it runs from the 7th through the 9th. I know a popular question I've been asked in the last month was "Are you going?". Not this year, just did too
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Tomorrow is the first day of the Microsoft Partner conference in Houston - it runs from the 7th through the 9th. I know a popular question I've been asked in the last month was "Are you going?". Not this year, just did too
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One thing I've seen many times over the years is customer applications that used to perform quite zippy slow to a crawl under heavy load. The uninformed person might crank up performance monitor, see that RAM and CPU are high, and order a "bigger"
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In my last post, I mentioned taking a family trip to the Baltimore Zoo . For folks in the area who haven’t been there, I’d definitely recommend making the trip, as there are great opportunities to get up close with animals that you will rarely see. Here
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OK, so maybe I’m a couple of days late with that, but for good reason. I’ve had the pleasure of having family visit, and have been busy spending time with them (including a nice trip to the Baltimore Zoo – one of the 3 oldest in the country – yesterday),
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Jeff Atwood had a great post a while back called " Strong Opinions, Weakly Held ." It's good to feel strongly about something, but important to be open to changing your opinion if you're faced with new evidence. Last week a reader pointed me
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Today I’m going to start posting some personal rumblings about the MVC framework. In fact, I haven’t started developing real apps with it, so I’m starting this series to force me look at it since in my current job I’m no longer working with web apps.
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I’ve just noticed that I didn’t put up a resume of the routing series. Here’s the list of associated posts: The MVC routing assembly – part I The MVC routing assembly – part II The MVC routing assembly – part III The MVC routing assembly – part IV The
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Godspeed buddy. XD Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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[Disclaimer: I've received a free copy of this book] In the last week I've finished reading the Professional Community Server book. Unfortunately, I didn't really enjoy it. Even though the book had several details, they were about older versions
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I was literally in the middle of writing the post when I saw a message from Andrew Davey about how he had implemented the same idea ! Of course, his is way better, so I got to code via subtraction. That means subtracting out the crap I had written in
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For a while I have seen where a setup will fail to build in a solution and there will be no errors to explain why it failed (My favorite type of failure!). When you look in the output folder the installer msi file is there. Today we had that happen on
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http://www.unthinkability.com/?p=200 Scott Fletcher has cast me as Simplex. Read on........ Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Phwew! I just moved yesterday (actually all weekend and yesterday and still more unpacking to go now!). Man, all that moving is starting to wear, but we're very happy in the new place. A lot more space to make room for number four! :) On to the point.
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Cool contest for folks working on Silverlight controls: Welcome to the Silverlight Control Builder Contest! With this contest, we hope to incite the development of many open and free Silverlight Controls that all developers can use in their applications,
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Downcasting is kind of something you usually want to avoid, but sometimes it's not easily avoided. It depends on the situation. Because it's not an idiom you'll find yourself doing every day, sometimes you'll forget to do it entirely and what you're looking
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Hi All! I ran into an issue that I could not resolve for two days and, with the help of MS, it is finally resolved. It was enough of a thorn in my side that I thought I should post it online in hopes that it will help some resolve it a lot faster. The
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A few days back I was browsing some of Jeff Atwood 's older blog entries and stumbled across one titled, The Danger of Naivete . In it, Jeff discusses an algorithm for randomizing an array that, while simple and seemingly intuitive, is subtlely incorrect
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If you own a Tablet PC, or a UMPC, or even if you have a desktop PC with a graphics tablet and the tablet extensions enabled, this app is a must-have: Video: InkSeine from Microsoft Research - The Official Video InkSeine truly reinvents the pen-based
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“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'” -- Brian Tracy I agree. When I started ORCS Web and we hosted our first customers back in 1996,
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I've blogged before about 32-bit vs. 64-bit .NET under IIS and how different Framework-bitnesses need different Application Pools (AppPools). Someone asked how you find out what AppPools are on a machine and how do you find out which ones are 32-bit?
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One of the exciting and powerful features of IISLogs 2.0 ( www.iislogs.com ) is handling log files on a Per Directory feature. Have you ever needed to handle unknown file extensions? Need unique rules for various folders? These couple items are handled...(
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